An electrifying debut that crackles with humor and insight, MAN AND WIFE examines the lives of girls and women as they take part in puberty rites, marriage rituals, and deathbed confessions. From Twilight Zone suburbia to cities on fire to post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, these award-winning stories range over unexpected landscapes—and land squarely in the wildness of the human heart.

“Katie Chase’s stories have a rhythm, a form, and a mesmerism all their own.” — Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead

“Toggling between the comic and the horrific, these brilliant stories rearrange the familiar into something more nuanced, fraught, and mysterious.” — Edan Lepucki, author of California

“With sharp, confident consideration of what it takes to survive in the world as a woman, Man and Wife introduces an important new literary voice.” — Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self